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In the Art Deco period art, design and fashion all enjoyed a surge of glorious inventiveness. Fashion, inspired from the centre of haute couture in Paris, took off in revolutionary new directions. Dress could be decorated with intricate, heavily beaded embroidery, or bold pictorial designs or dramatic geometric patterns. Nothing was too exotic to be tried.The division between fashion and art was very narrow, and well known artists such as Raoul Dufy and Sonia Delaunay turned their skills to designing textiles for the couturiers. Colourful, eccentric figures such as Paul Poiret and Mariano Fortuny were generating ever newer and more daring ideas/Specialist embroidery houses like that of Felix Lallement were supplying magnificent hand-worked embroideries to be used in the most extravagant haute couture.A Fashion for Extravagance gives a unique and inspiring insight into this glamorous and exciting world. Illustrated in full colour is Sara Bowman's hitherto unpublished collection of original working designs and embroidery samples from the period, including many from the Maison Lallement and Poiret's special design house, the Atelier Martine. Through these rare and beautiful examples t

Author

Sara Bowman; photographs, Michel Molinare

Publisher

London: Bell & Hyman

Published

1985

Language

EN

ISBN

9780713525595

Subjects

Crafts & Hobbies, History, Anthropology

Updated

2026-03-24